• Geographies of Lifelong Learning and the Knowledge Economy

    Author(s):
    Key MacFarlane (see profile) , Katharyne Mitchell
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Anthropology, Education and Pedagogy, Global DH, Place Studies, Urban Studies
    Subject(s):
    Education, Geography, Economics, Teaching, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Pedagogy
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/pfnv-fh79
    Abstract:
    With the advance of neoliberal globalization in the 1990s, lifelong learning emerged in the policy frameworks of the United States, Canada, and the EU. Neoliberal policies during this era worked to orchestrate personal development within the increasingly flexible processes of global capitalism, placing both within the rhythm of a personal life that must be fulfilled. Such an orchestration produced certain spaces—captured in notions such as the “learning society” and “creative city”—in which citizens were expected to take responsibility for their own human capital development as flexible entrepreneurs. For the majority of the population, however, this process led primarily to their own deskilling. Moreover, not only did lifelong learning strategies promote the standardization and homogenization of educational skills, and thus the abstraction and interchangeability of labor, but they were also bound up with the production of a so-called learning society that demanded increasing levels of external management. This chapter looks at some of the ramifications of these processes on workers and systems of education.
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.2307/j.ctt1xp3nf1.9
    Publisher:
    Pluto Press
    Pub. Date:
    2017-12-15
    Book Title:
    Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education
    Author/Editor:
    Katharyne Mitchell
    Page Range:
    67 - 82
    ISBN:
    9781786801326
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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